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Hero Hoops
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San Francisco, California
Hero Hoops is a leader in high energy hoopdance classes and teacher trainings. Hoopdance is about playing, laughing, working out, and building community. Join us to create more joy and fun in your life through hooping!
"What is Hoop Dance?" Hoopdance blends free style dancing with technical moves for a fun and effective workout. The total-wellness benefits of hoopdance include:
* It's FUN and feels great!
* It's Integrative Fitness, combining strength and cardio with meditational aspects
* Creates calmness and releases stress
* Total body workout
* Builds core strength
* Low/moderate impact, high-energy cardio workout
* Increases range of motion in major joint regions
* Tones and sculpts muscles of the legs, buttocks, and arms
* Builds confidence
* Develops hand-eye coordination
* Improves balance
* Promotes dynamic movement
* Inspires creativity and self-expression
* Stimulates the skin and lymphatic system
* Increases endorphins
* Builds community...meet lots of new friends!
* Is transformative for the body, mind, and spirit
* Tones the abdominals
* Helps post-natal women decrease belly adipose tissue (“baby belly”)
* Improves one’s yoga practice, and other physical practices,
through core strength development
* Inspires passion and creates joy in people’s daily lives
* Is accessible to all fitness levels
Hero Hoops primarily offers hoopdance classes in San Francisco, Marin, and Berkeley, CA. Our beginners classes are taught by our fun staff of hoopdance teachers. Our advanced classes are taught by Hero Hoops founder Miss Rosie, who often travels globally teaching workshops, leading teacher trainings, and performing.
Interested in teaching hoopdance? Hero Hoops offers a comprehensive Level 1 Teacher Training on the basics of teaching hoopdance. This training is regularly offered in San Francisco. For more info, please visit us at HeroHoops.com.
OTHER SERVICES:
The Hero Hoops teachers are available to teach private lessons and classes.
Miss Rosie is available for performance booking, and can help you arrange other non-hoop circus entertainment for your next big event, including stilt walking, face painting, and aerialists.
If you love movement and play, join us at Miss Rosie's annual summer camp out production Movement Play, held in July. Movement Play offers hooping, yoga, Acroyoga, Ecstatic Dance, contact improv, NIA, and more! The 2009 dates are July 9th-12th, in Willits, CA. www.MovementPlay.com
Schedule / Hours of Operation
Class Schedule Varies. Check website for current classes.
Locations
Sweet's Ballroom, Oakland
7th Heaven Yoga, Berkeley
World Dance Fitness, San Anselmo
City Dance Studios, San Francisco
The Center For Transformation, San Francisco
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